Hey, music section. Since this place is the most fitting, I decided to post this here.
When I was 10, I discovered a music genre that I absolutely loved. Heavy Metal. Throughout the years until age 16 I listened to nothing but metal. I discovered bands like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Sabaton, Megadeth, Amon Amarth and plenty of more. When I was mid-16, I started listening to other genres and gradually listened to less and less of the metal genre and subgenres.
Today, 18, I just don't enjoy it anymore. I still think a lot of the bands are talented, I loved the shit out of them, but I just can't bring myself to enjoy most of it as much as I used to.
Same thing happened with my friend who loved Rap and Hip-Hop.

I grew out of metal
I still listen to bands like Lamb Of God occasionally but I've kind of turned my back on most of it now

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also getting sick of being told about the whole metal has thousands of genres stuff
I'll just stick with the music I like now instead of sifting through worthless genres of metal I would have never liked in the first place

I used to be a massive metalhead, but then I discovered electronic music and I actually found some hip hop stuff that interests me. I do still listen to metal, but not nearly as much as I used to and it's mostly Tool as opposed to a lot of thrash stuff.

I haven't grown out of any music genre yet, but I have expanded my music taste quite a lot.
I currently started exploring genres I never listened to because it isn't cool, to hell with that.
Nowadays I just listen to what I enjoy.

I don't have a favourite genre by the way, just two or three genres that I prefer.

I have no idea about his family outside his home , but no-one in any class I've taken besides like 2 people listened or had any knowledge of heavy metal, so unless he had friends outside of school, that rules out the possibility of friends.

But how do people get obsessed with metal from THAT young of an age?
I do remember listening to Rammstein then but that's probably the most metal I had listened to. If you can even call it that.

It's the mindset that metal music gives you, you think it's badass, you think it's hardcore, you think it's the best shit to ever happen.

Panda gave me a nice story that almost anyone whose listened to metal goes through.

You find Metallica or Slayer or one of the big 4. You become hooked on said bands for a while before you decided to branch out a bit into death metal or metalcore or black metal. You become hooked on that genre for a bit until you find progressive metal, this is where your attitude towards music changes, you start to look for song writing and technicality or something like that and find electronic music or post-rock. Then you're pretty much matured musically and you start to find stuff you REALLY like.

I've noticed that style of progression is common. It may not be exactly like that, but most people go through it.

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Me? I found post-rock and moved straight back into post-metal, although I'm trying to go through trip-hop and trance music right now.

I still listen to and like the metal stuff I listened to 3 years ago, just not as frequently.

Yeah, it's absolutely normal. I remember myself enjoying alternative rock bands back in the day. I still consider many of them my very favourites, even while during the years I moved to very different genres. That said, If asked, I still put Three Days Grace as my alltime favourite, but I don't listen to them and doing it doesn't have the same.. feel anymore.

I grew out of metal
I still listen to bands like Lamb Of God occasionally but I've kind of turned my back on most of it now

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also getting sick of being told about the whole metal has thousands of genres stuff
I'll just stick with the music I like now instead of sifting through worthless genres of metal I would have never liked in the first place

Everybody grows out on metal. We've all seen the filmclip of Enter Sandman and got exited, got into metal and then realised the shitty stereotype and got bored of distorted guitars and blastbeats.

It's the mindset that metal music gives you, you think it's badass, you think it's hardcore, you think it's the best shit to ever happen.

Panda gave me a nice story that almost anyone whose listened to metal goes through.

You find Metallica or Slayer or one of the big 4. You become hooked on said bands for a while before you decided to branch out a bit into death metal or metalcore or black metal. You become hooked on that genre for a bit until you find progressive metal, this is where your attitude towards music changes, you start to look for song writing and technicality or something like that and find electronic music or post-rock. Then you're pretty much matured musically and you start to find stuff you REALLY like.

I've noticed that style of progression is common. It may not be exactly like that, but most people go through it.

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Me? I found post-rock and moved straight back into post-metal, although I'm trying to go through trip-hop and trance music right now.

I still listen to and like the metal stuff I listened to 3 years ago, just not as frequently.

Meh I've kinda grown out of metal, to be honest most metal just seems to ride on the whole "aggression" that spawned the genre and most bands never go much further than making energetic angry music, that's why I like The Ocean, Townsend and most post rock and prog metal and shit, they tend to try and harness that shit and channel into something more advanced than just "I'm so angry I'm gonna smash some power chords with a few good riffs and then do a wanky guitar solo followed by a drum break and then back into the chorus"

That being since I still grin like a cheshire cat when the riff kicks in during Hacrides track My Enemy.